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Aquelarre: Brevarium
Publisher: Nocturnal Media
by Luis G. - L. D. S. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 02/18/2020 15:44:23

Remember that this is the "player's book" (or the lighter book the DM will take into to game evenings), with all the sets of rules. If you are looking to fully get into the game, go for the Core book that has all the juicy stuff inside. If you're not into PDFs or PODs, wait for the retail book that will hit retail shops in April /// From my MeWe group. Did I tell you to look for AQUELARRE RPG IN ENGLISH there? ///

Today, I received an order of DriveThruRPG print-on-demand Aquelarre books for my collection. They come from the print in the UK, and were received by standard mail with no surprise taxes attached.

Here (there) you have a comparison of the english edition of the Breviarium (print-on-demand) vs Spanish edition. English is supposed to be a language that has shorter words and sentences ... but this yankee breviarium is 20 pages longer than the spanish one, even when it uses the same font and layout ... The book is even thicker because of the heavier paper stock required by PODs. I do very much prefer the darker cover of the spanish edition. This one is only available in "standard color" (while it's greyscale, so it doesn't matter much).

The other item I received today is the Fatum Sperantia adventure that come bundled with the original DM screen not the three panel one that was published with the Kickstarter . They have wisely repurposed this forty pages adventure as an standalone issue. The POD is nice and recycles the full color central panels of that screen as front and back cover (although I would have made the title and Aquelarre logo stand out more). The inside is also printed in full color and looks very nice, in the line of the look of the Core book, while the POD printing is "standard color", so the ink is matte and it looks less appealing.

I'm waiting for my "premium color" copy Asturias Medievalia to hit my mailbox soon, so then I'll be able to compare



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Fatum Sperantia - Aquelarre Adventure
Publisher: Nocturnal Media
by Luis G. - L. D. S. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 02/18/2020 15:41:27

/// From my MeWe group. Did I tell you to look for AQUELARRE RPG IN ENGLISH there? ///

Today, I received an order of DriveThruRPG print-on-demand Aquelarre books for my collection. They come from the print in the UK, and were received by standard mail with no surprise taxes attached.

Here (there) you have a comparison of the english edition of the Breviarium (print-on-demand) vs Spanish edition. English is supposed to be a language that has shorter words and sentences ... but this yankee breviarium is 20 pages longer than the spanish one, even when it uses the same font and layout ... The book is even thicker because of the heavier paper stock required by PODs. I do very much prefer the darker cover of the spanish edition. This one is only available in "standard color" (while it's greyscale, so it doesn't matter much).

The other item I received today is the Fatum Sperantia adventure that come bundled with the original DM screen not the three panel one that was published with the Kickstarter . They have wisely repurposed this forty pages adventure as an standalone issue. The POD is nice and recycles the full color central panels of that screen as front and back cover (although I would have made the title and Aquelarre logo stand out more). The inside is also printed in full color and looks very nice, in the line of the look of the Core book, while the POD printing is "standard color", so the ink is matte and it looks less appealing.

I'm waiting for my "premium color" copy Asturias Medievalia to hit my mailbox soon, so then I'll be able to compare



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Asturies Medievalia
Publisher: Nocturnal Media
by Luis G. C. G. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 02/14/2020 16:51:05

So this came as a surprise. Nocturnal translated and published through DriveTruRPG the first supplement for Aquelarre: Asturies Medievalia!. This was also the first one published in spanish, shortly after the Core and Breviarium of the 3rd edition hit the shelves.

Asturias is my homeland, and when it came out I could not be any happier. It was a little softcover of just hundred pages that preceded the bigger hardcovers that would be published in the years to come. As for today, it is already out of stock.

Below you'll find the translated description of the book that apppears in the publisher website. For most of us, spaniards, it should be more than enough, but for most of you, not that versed in the geography, history and culture of the Iberian peninsula, I'd love to add some words. />

Asturias is a little region located in the northern shores of the Iberian peninsula. A green land wedged between the high and sheer mountains and the rocky shores of the Cantabrian. A lush green of pastures and dark forests, thriving in natural and unnatural life, populated by brave men with poor in riches, but wealthy in customs and lore.

After the muslim invasion of the eigth century, that made the visigothic kingdom of Toledo crumble in just a few years, the northern rim of it gave shelter to those fleeing the muslim rule. It was conquered but far from pacified. It was just a matter of years that a rebellion took place and expelled the muslim from that country. Thus, the chieftain Pelayo, destined to be the first king of the new Asturian kingdom, battled them at Covadonga, and crushed a much stronger muslim army with some Heavenly help. Hard to tell history from legend here, and you have a differente theory for each taste about the man and the battle. Anyway, the cross you see in the front of Asturies Medievalia exists; it's the "Cross of the Victory", guarded in the Cathedral of Oviedo. Its golden body is hollow, and keeps the remains of the cross that Virgin Mary gave Pelayo that day.

Over the centuries, the Asturian kingdom, and then the Kingdom of Leon when it crossed the mountains and could secure the land north of the river Duero and moved the capital, slowly (almost eight hundred years slow) drove south the Reconquista (the retaking of the land), the Court left Asturias behind, and Asturias went back to its mellow and sometimes shadowy day to day.

In the times of Aquelarre, Asturias, once shelter and cradle of the christian kingdoms, is a backwater land, not much different from how it was a millenia before, when the Astures battled the roman invader...



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Aquelarre
Publisher: Nocturnal Media
by Luis G. C. G. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 02/07/2020 16:32:08

If you want to try a true "medieval fantastic" game that stands away from the rest, you should consider trying this one. The senior spanish RPG is one that will put you in the middle of the hard reality of the day to day of Spanish middle ages. This is to Pendragon what "Unforgiven" is to "The house on the prairie".

With a twist of magic and folk tales.

After a succesful Kickstarter that turned into a sad, bumpy road, Nocturnal Games has done a great job translating the colorful, hugue 565 pages "Codex". The almost written from scrap 3rd edition of a game that has been running on tables since 1990 and has more than 40 titles in the different spanish editions.

I really hope you enjoy it.

PS: If you want to know more about the game or to be part of its growing fan-base, please meet us at "AQUELARRE RPG IN ENGLISH" community on MeWe

Luis Gil / Lorenz Das Stift



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Aquelarre — Translated Introduction
Publisher: Nocturnal Media
by Luis G. C. G. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 02/07/2020 16:29:29

If you want to try a true "medieval fantastic" game that stands away from the rest, you should consider trying this one. The senior spanish RPG is one that will put you in the middle of the hard reality of the day to day of Spanish middle ages. This is to Pendragon what "Unforgiven" is to "The house on the prairie".

With a twist of magic and folk tales.

After a succesful Kickstarter that turned into a sad, bumy road, Nocturnal Games has done a great job translating the colorful, hugue 565 pages "Codex". The almost written from scrap 3rd edition of a game that has been running on tables since 1990 and has more than 40 titles in the different spanish editions.

I really hope you enjoy it.

PS: If you want to know more about the game or to be part of its growing fan-base, please meet us at "AQUELARRE RPG IN ENGLISH" community on MeWe

Luis Gil / Lorenz Das Stift



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